Carolina Martins
Carolina Martins has a degree in Art Studies and a post-graduate degree in Literary and Cultural Studies from the School of Arts and Humanities at the University of Coimbra, where she is currently a doctoral student in Materialities of Literature, with the thesis Augmented Reading: Spatial Combinations in Installations of Graphic Narratives. As part of this thesis, she developed the VAST/O project, an interdisciplinary installation accessible to deaf, blind and partially sighted people, presented so far in Bournemouth, Lisbon and London, and with dates scheduled for the Fumetto Festival (Lucerne, Switzerland) and Municipal Gallery of the Bank of Portugal (Leiria). She also created Oficina Diafragma, a visual narrative and communication workshop for all age groups.